[governance] implications of private TLDs

[Louis Pouzin (well)]

Dear Parminder,

I know, and I like your 1-2-3 points. They are both compact and well
stated. Easily quotable.

Congrats for your op-ed in The Hindu.

Cheers, Louis.
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:30 PM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>wrote:

>
> Dear Louis,
>
> Whether unfortunate or not, English is a major language in India... India
> may therefore be quite interested to prevent privatisation of English
> language words which then will be used as carriers of corporate painted
> culture into India......
>
> In the new times, the principal means of global domination - economic,
> social and cultural, is threefold
>
> (1) Exporting culture, (2) (and then) seeking rent over using alien
> culture, (3) controlling the digital socio-technical infrastructure
> (Internet) as the means of both for exporting culture and extracting rent,
> and also as lever of coercive force employed across the world (as done by
> US-Microsoft recently in the 3322.org DNS takeover case)
>
> Therefore private TLD are a part of a much larger problem.
>
> parminder
>
>
>
>  On Tuesday 25 September 2012 03:48 PM, Louis Pouzin (well) wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:41 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>wrote:
>
>>
>> Today 'The Hindu' carried its own editorial on this issue, simply titled
>> 'No, ICANN'....
>>
>>  parminder
>>
>> http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/no-icann/article3932668.ece
>>
>>  - - -
>
> India's interest for new TLDs is indeed relatively minor, with regard to
> her population. Only 21 requests. Some strings tend to be quite generic:
> IDN, INDIANS, STAR, STATEBANK. How they will fare in the ICANN screening
> process, who knows ?
>
> IDN is doomed, as it's Indonesia's code in ISO 3166-1 alpha-3.
>
> Good luck. Louis.
>
>
>
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